three broadcast quality video for your media project free media zero down to r t dot com. larry king is america's favorite fashion mentor tim gunn on his fashion bible until you have the slope occasion of americans taking over people always think that i'm going to be very critical of what they're wearing i'm not all that i say except responsibility for what you're wearing i don't care what it is sounding off on big issues facing the fashion industry but there's no reason why if a woman is a size eighteen twenty twenty two can also look fabulous magazine goes where few have gone into our closets all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king now it's coming from our home in beverly hills my wife will join us later as she's the style expert in this house and i just i'm

a tenant anyway our special guest today is tim gunn tim is the fashion console and co-host of the emmy award winning reality show project runway that is thursday at nine eastern eight center on lifetime he's developing a new home wares collection we'll ask about bad he's a new york times best selling author and the paperback version of the very popular book tim tim gunn factional fashion bible is out right now and i hold here in my hands you we're going to go up and we're going to be looking for the cause it we're going to have a lot of fun we what do you think of braces i love them larry and i think they're very fashionable i think they're a great statement why don't more people wear them you know why because people are too lazy and it takes time to get into them and to fasten them to your pants it's i'm telling of the slope if occasion of america's taking over one is you start wearing them i want to wear them ok i'm always wearing a jacket so you know see them have you always have it styled so naturally. i grew

up in washington d.c. where there's obviously no style of ole miss that famous first. we had the kennedys for a thousand is we now have mrs obama thank goodness and you know nancy pelosi leader pelosi is as far as i'm concerned the most stylish person on capitol hill bill clinton didn't toto swath oh no but bill clinton certainly don't you always wear designer clothing but i don't know i actually i like shopping on a budget i really do the suit i'm wearing a spike hundred fifty dollars. the you of the casual sure i mean in shorts and bush no no does not wear shorts in the show you don't want to see my legs how about a t. shirt yeah sure you know i were a jacket if i go out alone on the beach i haven't been on a beach and decades. his it is so boring. why chronicle the history of western fashion in this book well i have to tell you with the school of

the bible i do because in a way it's my bible it's my. go to for all things about fashion and budgets of western fashion the book is specially american centric i'm very proud of american design though everything that we do in this country goes back to western europe it does. and what's so interesting about western europe and i'm going back hundreds of hundreds of years is there was always a correlation between what people wore and commerce and you see a constant change in evolution in clothing and it's a reflection of its of society culture economics politics the clothes of the roman empire the glory war like church well you know we were really talking about a basic piece of cloth that the drapes are either around your torso or over your shoulder and i was in fashion then it was definitely in fashion and everyone will

white it looks like will it was an unbleached cotton so very easily accessed and you didn't have to worry about dyeing it but we see roman emperors and scarlet reds and purples like we're wearing the color of royalty but those diodes were very significant because they were hugely expensive and very time consuming to work with who determines. fashion who is there's someone in the world that says nick she is short skirt oh it's a conspiracy of sorts this is a conspiracy on the part of the textile manufacturers the fashion editors to a lesser degree the designers they want to get on board with what ever is happening is that you have to change to create new sales yes and that's what fashion is all about it's about change i always say there's a distinct difference between fashion and clothes clothes don't have to change but by definition fashion does so if you save everything what goes around comes around

. it does i will say go when we see a recycling of a style what right now but nine hundred eighty s. are being romanced i fundamentally don't understand why you didn't like the eighty's when i was living through them. but for me it's most authentic in on us when it's looked at through a contemporary ones so there are some changes some evolution from what we saw all rejoice. and. that's what fashion is all about it's a constant constant cycle why is it hard for men. the world of style the world of fell why is it hard for men while. my own theory is that men like to pretend the fashion means nothing to them and i think the they feel that a conjures up a feminine side and they should be concerned with such things it's why most men. are overly casual when i feel they should be dressing up is why most men who are bachelor look like slobs they would never dream of living like this in the

scrounger you must feed enormously comfortable in yourself i don't i am very very comfortable thank you and i'm very proud to be who i am and i feel very lucky to have the role that i have of project runway's that surprising to you the success has been. in the years right it's actually nine years twelve seasons. i don't even have the adequate words to express how i feel about it i never dreamed we'd have a season two as a matter of fact when i got involved with the show i was never to be on camera i was a consultant and i was thrown into the work room with the designers at the last minute because i believe the producers were afraid that the designers wouldn't talk they just make their work but no one would say anything so by sending me and they were sort of some dialogue but now i'm i'm flabbergasted by the whole thing is the fashion industry ruthless yes top business yes cut your throat yes is there

a hot new designer. there's always a hot new designer. the challenge in this industry is you're still be the hot new designer next year and chances are you are likely that you'll be gone we'll be right back with tim gunn but first let's have a look at my closet and i don't care what he says this is the room a lot of to me by sean. penn and this is why i wrote this is that i will say it's the smallest of the clauses it is those available inside hollywood boots anymore these are my shoes of my spirit collection of shoes the so my ties my braces my belts belts with jeans sometimes on a weekend as the shirts top and bottom shirts well i'm going to run over his jeans and pants and sport jackets in the super bowl you two were supposedly working on still are shorts by color and patterns on your no slouch when it comes to shoes larry i mean i have as many as shawn but now you are a fashion icon you kidding know your you are fully brown does your hot shot when i

didn't is from the first. vocal about a size twelve and over and you very vocal and i am very vocal and what he is saying well the women who are larger than us lived size twelve are really marginalized by the fashion industry and i think it's disgraceful and there's no reason why. a woman who's a size eighteen twenty twenty two can also look fabulous i'm always talking about the upper divas how great to they look they're not diminutive women gorgeous they wore on and i suspect that there are every day clothes are probably custom made because they don't think they're going to a retailer and finding things that are really appropriate for you're a woman when he won. but right now i'm bored i just felt what. it's really hard for me to throw things away how do you tell people what goes let's go you know i do have a certain mode of operation when it comes to that and frankly i practice it myself as i have

a small new york apartment limited closet space i buy clothes i wear them on camera and i can't just i'm not going to have clothing rods and worms so i do a closet retore every six months and i sort of buy. what or why or where or and then with them what i wear what are the what are the real soul movers what things make me feel really fantastic when i wear them and those you know you want to see if and then among the things that you wear or are they really suitable or they're really things that you want to continue to wear then there are the things that you never wear and then you have to ask yourself will you and then there are things that you may want to mend and then there are things that you know you're not going to wear because they're not in good enough shape and those things you should just throw away but the things that are are good shape that you don't wear give away give them to a charity that's what i do want to help so helps with priorities and if there are

things with tags on them that you've never worn and that they've been in there for years i mean sometimes wonder if we discover something it's like shopping all over again. but i would say that why do you keep things you know in my experience show i wouldn't have this issue but in my experience women buy things aspirational able buy a size the mr small don't think i'm going to diet diet diet to get into this and then they don't yeah so those aspirational clothes were main dormant yeah it's terrible men standpoint what's the biggest mistake men make they wear clothes that are too big for them plain and simple most men are wearing. jackets pants that are one to two sizes too big and they like the way that they feel comfortable and i have to tell you i don't i don't subscribe to their comfort i'm told that well i'm not uncomfortable in my suit but i would but it's not like wearing a pair of pajamas and i always say if you want to dress to feel as though you never got out of bed don't. stay out to see what is the pace is investment pieces that

men should well as suits shoes outerwear. i mean and then investment is relative i mean i'm very respectful of shopping on a budget and i do it myself and i believe that when we shop on a budget we're much more mindful about how this will fit in with the rest of our wardrobe about how it will fit within with our lifestyle and how much use we'll get out of it and i find that people who spend with very deep pockets and don't who don't really think about it have a lot of clothes that languish in their closet. look at me i go i go for the sales. and my son oh come on i hope you know we're already well as snobs or people who look down and other people who have either like oh no why don't you go to a goal and in fact people always think that i'm going to be very critical of what they're wearing i'm not all that i say is except responsibility for what you're

wearing i don't care whether dukes and i always say when when you look at the person across the room is dressed like a circus clown maybe that person who has a lot of he's maybe steve's list no no no this is because you are i am i'm going to say with your sincerity and community show on this superbly we're going on stage i'm really very impressed sean the only caution i want to present you the audience being on these most knits shouldn't be i nurse they really should they should be on shelves i thought i was their instructional last year and the good ones i now you know you force the. game changed if these are on the shelf and you put a layer of tissue paper between them it should be acid farai and you can still feel it you can still feel it and knowing how organized you are you can organize them by turtlenecks the next are they going to slow the accelerator.

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the i mean i keep it just for. some time when i come out wearing this i don't know what maybe that you know carol when. and then on the other side how did i tell you i think this is the most spectacular cause that i have ever had the privilege of entering oh i have. had it so firmly already everyone saying you roberto we keep going. i always carry us about you know when you buy something in a store and they say it's an take is it really empty well this is a reputable store certainly should be over there why a border culpable i get very confused is the difference between things that are holding antique some things that are referred to as a vintage so what's the difference well i'm not an expert by any means but i think think the judge means that it's not a bill that's on the field or the more i mean i do a lot of i'm a i'm a bibliophile and i'm i have a lot of books not as many as you alter what you say about it but i i buy books

online frequently and i love it when i see a vintage book and i remember purchasing only wait a minutes but he made me and i saw something on my bookshelf right below which is just means it's out of print. so it's not being well it's interesting valentino anything that he designed and he was designing up until six seven years ago and the thing that he designed is refer to his advantage to this to distinguish it from what's being designed by the house the balance you know now that he really doesn't have his hand and so i interviewed him he's a great guy he really is going to discuss an area with you ok time game you supported gay youth right you did a clip for it gets better did i do you always been i don't know on in fact it's one of the reasons i'm have such respect and admiration for young people who are ready to declare that they were around when i was growing up. teens even into

my early twenty's i knew who i wasn't but i didn't know who i was i really didn't and it was a very different time it was a very different era and i had a lot of fears about being gay and about what that actually meant. and i had already presented my family with a lot of disappointments and i didn't feel that i wanted to present them with this . and it's very funny though my mother died two years ago and. i think she eventually figured out my sexuality. but we never talked about a my father was gone long before we never once talked about if you have a say one day i am gay. well when i entered into the relationship you know us better people knew that was well that but that was a moment of reckoning for me to that's why when i really fully realize that this is who i am and you've been single over thirty years i have your celibate watch you

know i have to say larry and sean i was in a relationship a very intense i thought beautiful will seem credible relationship for nine years and it ended very abruptly. and it ended with my partner. i've been sleeping with just about every one imaginable i was in one thousand nine hundred two so it was the whole advent of aids he broke he broke my heart and then he i thought he may have given me a death sentence and i retreated into myself i was tested for hiv every six months for twelve years to deal with the anger thank you you know after i got over the horrible feelings of of worthlessness and whoa i was just serious furious thank you sean and so every time i would even contemplate another relationship i would and then get out of self-imposed i would just retreat

don't want to miss you know i have such a rich full life i'm such a lucky guy no i really don't want to switch gears a bit you grew up in d.c. i did all you political yes and i am you close with the first lady right well i deserve. any time but i'm i'm at the white house and rolling and thought i'm going on september twentieth for the national design awards luncheon and i i adore the i adore mrs obama good in fashion oh she's the best. people are constantly comparing mrs obama to jackie kennedy and i keep saying their polarities so different i mean jackie kennedy was a rare hothouse flower kept under a bell jar as they say really i'm sure expensive designer clothes and this is a bone is the most successful bull were laid a bull individual and it's a profoundly wonderful message to american women and when the world would he was

pantsuits yes. i'm just subject to the. stiff men's wear tailored pants suit i think it could be feminized. i have great respect for mrs clinton i really do i mean i do she's a powerful woman and i wish she'd just take a note from the leader pelosi or for mrs obama and i'm sure a little more feminine today and i think that i have to say this and i said this what in a longer two way show on their qualities of character of the women possess that most men don't and i believe that those qualities of character help women be better leaders than men i do really i do and i agree with you i'm on that note i'm. not right just maybe. never ever ever where you don't feel good or not you just won't just feel so soft and when you have so many other choices just find something that's had i mean maybe there are some

friends you have who would be thrilled to have the someone like rihanna not can you get up the courage to wear something that you wouldn't wear don't do what don't you know you're going to say i should have listened to my own voice i should never have doubted myself because you're not going to navigate whatever the event is with compliments people can tell you that you look fabulous and they'll be sincere if you don't feel that way doesn't matter it just doesn't matter if you have a home one coming out it's a home textiles yes a betting bath yes what are you studying about it will come out in spring tim gunn it's called tim gunn collection it is all about. style and affordability we have some social media questions for you i'll do before she do that ms b. at ninety three as can us tim what the most important thing is for someone trying to find their own personal style. find a style icon find someone who. you can find photos of someone who navigates the real world not just

a red carpet red carpet clothes are like wedding clothes that are but i don't think the report of the real world but someone who is has your coloring hopefully is the same height. so that when you look at them you can think ok i could potentially word that or what would someone so where i mean for me i use george clooney what would your twenty wear that's a good one you know. ok us in the twenty's no harborough wants to know where do you find the inspiration for the colors and styles are there. oh well i mean a lot of good comes from experience knowing what i feel i look good and when i see myself on camera i know what go down so purples blue was pinks there colors that i resonate sure i stay away from oranges and yellows and any other than pink most pastels is orange agree. double me it makes me look sallow in fact

i tell women and when they're when they're thinking about a color or something but they haven't worn hold up to your face and see how it reflects really gives you a glow that's good and it makes you look sallow and it flattens you out don't wear i was worried about this because green is not always good i mean it looks fabulous or your eyes can see it if she is it's just it's a beautiful taller reflect the old green can be bad yes and generally flanking the darker skin is the more color options your big did dinallo as does ard follow fashion or fashion follow art i'm an art school to never make up my mind because i love both. but it's a very interesting question it's very interesting i mean there's a there's a debate that my students would have and i love the debates about fashion whether it's art or whether it's design or whether it's sits in both categories or it's somewhere in the middle and an online. i have to say i believe i really believe

it's design because design is problem solving and will artist problem solving amount but you're solving a problem that you create when you're an artist and design more than the money i do because you're you're solving someone else's problem ok we play a game called if you only knew your biggest fashion. polyester of the seventy's. it was his to and we had not much of a choice to play it was everywhere was to lie in order and well my neighbor objected. why i loved it i felt so not jewish i feel as if. i had a dad and say that was said i'm on top and i'm on. fire but i thought prior about my i was someone such a one fire god i mean general restaurant in miami beach ex-wife and suddenly people were firemen were coming to the restaurant and there were five men

on the job stone crabs in the true story of number ten on the air and i really smelling and a man in the next table comes over to me and pours water on me i said i'm suit was burning i was smoking in the cigarette court and my peer ta god. i remember that suit. i don't want to talk to. your parents pockets it was a great she was and i don't want to offend any of your canadian viewers but you know what the cold what a canadian tuxedo. a favorite project runway moment oh i have to say episode one season one when we took the designers to a grocery store for the challenge they thought we were going to some high end fabric store their thinking couture their thinking ground and suddenly they were in the grocery store faced with ears of corn. as a great moment best thing about your job oh the diversity of the fact that i were so many have never tire of any of them i'm

a lucky guy what's the best advice you've ever received. be true to who you are to speak true to who you are they were designed. not for not for me personally but but just in general. a fabulous incredible woman the president of the council of fashion designers of america the creator of an iconic design that will be part of fashion history forever diane von furstenberg really just a great great great on the road and what is she designed the will for of the craft press ras you know shasta i certainly know wrap dress abrupt runways this bracelet a lot she's under attack on some sites so i really believe. that of the present on that note we're going to read it off the top i meant to be done only until i'm done fashion model and for his house wares and this sheets and everything telling one spring and look for him on the runway thank you sean for joining us by. the.

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